Abstract--Unlimited vocabulary annotation of multimedia documents remains elusive despite progress solving the problem in the case of a small, fixed lexicon. Taking advantage of th...
In this paper, we study the use of XML tagged keywords (or simply key-tags) to search an XML fragment in a collection of XML documents. We present techniques that are able to empl...
We study how decentralized agents can develop a shared vocabulary without global coordination. Answering this question can help us understand the emergence of many communication s...
: Organizing data into sensible groupings is one of the most fundamental modes of understanding and learning. As an example, a common scheme of scientific classification puts organ...
Activity recognition is a key component for creating intelligent, multi-agent systems. Intrinsically, activity recognition is a temporal classification problem. In this paper, we...
Douglas L. Vail, Manuela M. Veloso, John D. Laffer...